참복科(복어目) 魚類의 분류학적 연구

Taxonomic revision of the family tetraodontidae fishes (teleostei: tetraodontiformes)

The puffefishes of the Family Tetraodontidae have been examined based on external morphometry, meristic characters and proportional measurements of specimens collected at 20 places along the coast of Korea from September,1989 to July, 1994. Twenty eight species representing 10 genera of the Family Tetraodontidae were redescribed, and external morphological charcters to species and genera were provided. Of these, 4 species are new to the Korean fish fauna. They are Sphoeroides pachygaster(Müller et Troschel), Chelonodon patoca (Buchanan-Hamilton), Feroxodon multistriatus (Richardson) and Ephippion guttifer (Bennett). The Genus Canthigaster has different characters in length of snout, body height, lateral line system and olfactory organ in other genus, therefore it should be included in the Subfamily rank. In Genus Ephippion the prickles on the dorsal and lateral of the body are enormously enlarged into plates forming a partial carapace. Of the 23 species which have spinous scales (prickles), Lagocephalus fishes, Takifugu stictonotus and Arothron stellatus have larger ventral spinous scales than dorsal ones. Lagocephalus inermis differs from the other four congeneric species, since it showed different synapomorphic characters of the black gill slits and prickles. The Genus Pleurancanthus has different characters of body form, meristic and measurements characters, and lateral line system in Lagocephalus, therefore it should be included in the Genus rank. The pufferfishes of the Family Tetraodontidae have been recorded total 35 species representing 10 genera. These are 19 species of Takifugu, 5 species of genus Lagocephalus, 3 species of genus Arothron, 2 species of Sphoeroides and 1 species of genus Pleuranacanthus, Boesemamichthys, Ephippion, Feroxodon, Canthigaster respectively.